Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-12-03
rRoHIBrr1os DEFEATED.

Atlanta, Georgia, Anti-Prohfbition BY
1000 Majority-An Exciting AID Memo-
rable COmpaign.
ATLANTA, Ga, November 26.-After the
most heated contest ON record in the state
of Georgia, Atlanta to-day voted against
prohibitiea. The fight has been an espe.
ciallv bitter one. For several months the
citizens have been engaged in the contest.
Meetings have been held almost every night
and local speakers and foreign statesmen
have stumped the county from almost every
curbstone in the city and every Cross road in
the county. Early in the campaign the pro
hibitlonists leased the largest warehouse in
the city and fitted it up with seating ca.
pacity for 5000 people. Almost nightly
that building has been filed and
such scenes of, Wild enthusiasm
are rarely witnessed. Almost every minis
ter in the city preached prohibition from the
pulpit Sunday after Sunday. Both sides
had full campaign funds and managed their
respective causes for all they were worth.
The negro vote was the bone Of contention
and was the balance of power. Each side
made the most strenuous endeavors to secure
it in every way possible. The negroes were
considerably divided on the subject, though
the majority of them voted with the prohi-
bitiQnists.
One of the features of the contest has been
the active part taken by many women of
the city. Sevsral of the churches organized
committees from among their female
members who took an active part
in the campaign. They organized the men
of the colored churches into societies and
met with them and prayed with them day
after day. The result of their work was
shown to- day by the appearance of large
numbers of women at the polls with blue
badges. They served hot coffee and sand
witches at every polling place and conducted
prayer meetings and singing crusades In the
open air. Fulton county, in which Atlanta
Is located, voted two years ago on the same
question and went for prohibition, by ma
jority of 228 out of about 5000 votes. The
registration this time exceeded that of last
year by 1900 votes. The principal fight
made on prohibition during the campaign
was that it did not prohibit and that into1i-
eating drinks could be openly purchased in
number of places throughout the city,
which paid taxes to the United State govern
ment for the sale of whisky. Thousands of
gallons have been sent in each month from
cities around Atlanta from which it was al
most as easy to get jug as it was at the
bars In the city. 1t is claimed that prohibit
ton injured the city which was receiving
1000 year in whisky licenses, without
decreasing in the slightest, the amount of
whisky sold in the city. The probitionists
on the other hand, claimed that Atlanta
has never had prohibition: that
while it was solved. years ago, the licenses
then existing did not expire, some of them
until almost year ago, and that since that
time the domestic wine clause in the local
option bill, allowed many places in city by
which the law could be easily evaded. This
was, however, remedied by the last legi=la-
ture which pat license of $4,000 on all
wine rooms, which license will 60 into effect
after January 1. The city has gone "wet'
by probably 1000 majority. Great enthu-
siasm prevails on the streets.
The official vote of the county ppts the
anti prohibition majority at Lip, out of a
total vote of $500. There are sixteen pre-
cincts in the county, of which six are in this
city. The anti's to-day carried every city
precinct and all but one of those in the
county.